Southern Character
Lisa Tendrich Frank and Daniel Kilbride, eds. Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-3690-8. The fifteen essays in this collection stem from a conference organized in 2005 in...
Civil War Christmas
It’s difficult to write about the Civil War at Christmas time, since during that time of war, battles and skirmishes, most folks just did not sit down and commit their thoughts of Yuletide observances to paper and ink, that is if they had ink. But Christmas was...
Book Review
“Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War,” Tony Horwitz. Picador, Henry Holt & Co. 365 pages. $18. Many Southerners have denied that the Civil War was fought over slavery, arguing that the war was really in defense of...
Civil War Secrets
The waves off North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras rose 20 feet and crashed down on the steam-powered vessel, which at just 172 feet long appeared too small to be a warship. Many of the 63 sailors on the USS Monitor had been in storms before, but they were used to...Obiter Dicta
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